A True and a False Idea of the Grave

Homilist

Psalm 88:5
Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom you remember no more: and they are cut off from your hand.

I. A TRUE idea of the grave: "Free" —

1. From all physical sufferings.

2. From all secular anxieties.

3. From all social tumults.

4. From all human tyrannies.

II. A FALSE idea of the grave. That the dead are —

1. Forgotten by God.

2. Separated from God. They are not "cut off" from Him in any sense.

(Homilist.)

Parallel Verses

KJV: Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

WEB: set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.